Morningside Heights
Neighbourhood in Toronto · #144
Former city: Scarborough
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About Scarborough
Former City of Scarborough, incorporated as a city in 1983.
Names you’ll hear here
- Rouge National Urban Park
- Toronto Zoo
What stands out
- Longest transit trip to Union in Toronto (about 112 min)
- Newest housing in Scarborough (67% built 2001–21)
- Among the most detached houses in Scarborough (59% of homes)
Living here
- Housing
- Middle housing cost. Median home $900K · renters pay $1,540/mo2021 Census figures, not current prices. Rent is what renting households paid, utilities included, counting long-time tenants, subsidized homes and basement suites, so it sits below what a new lease costs. Use them to compare neighbourhoods, not to budget.
- To Union
- Over an hour. About 112 min by transit, weekday morning
- Getting to work
- Mostly car. 81% drive · 15% transit · 1% walk or bike
- Households
- Mostly owners. 15% rent
- Tree canopy
- 45% or more. 46% of the land is under treesSatellite land cover, 2021 (ESA WorldCover, 10 m).
- Home types
- Detached 59% · Semi & row 29% · Low-rise 11%
- Built
- 1960 or before 1% · 1961–80 3% · 1981–2000 29% · 2001–21 67%
- Ages
- Under 15 16% · 15–24 15% · 25–44 27% · 45–64 27% · 65+ 15%
- Language at home
- English 52% · Tamil 20%The language each person speaks most often at home. Another 13% name two or more equally.
- Recent immigrants
- 4% arrived in Canada 2016–21Share of residents who immigrated in the five years before the 2021 Census.
2021 Census and TTC/GO schedules, Morningside Heights. Tiers compare neighbourhoods across Toronto.